"Wharf" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... distance lay the bay, calm and resplendent, with white sails and specks of boats. Beyond it rose Martha's Vineyard, green and cool and bowery, and at its wharf lay a steamer. ...
— Good Cheer Stories Every Child Should Know • Various
... of tumult, Annie, you must disguise yourself at once, and go down to the wharf. I have arranged with our boatman, Allen, whom you know well, as we have often gone out with him for a sail in the evening, that if he hears of an outbreak, he shall bring the boat to the steps at the end of this street, ...
— With Kitchener in the Soudan - A Story of Atbara and Omdurman • G. A. Henty
... a stand-still and began to unload: first the dogs, who had been stowed under their master's feet since they left the steamboat wharf, and who with a clear bound to the sidewalk began scouring in mad circles, one after another, up and down Todd's immaculate steps, the four in full cry until the entire neighborhood was aroused, the late sleepers turning over with the remark—"Temple's at ...
— Kennedy Square • F. Hopkinson Smith
... Thames and Dunkirk (screw):—tidal; three times a week from Fenning's Wharf. Also from Leith, ...
— The South of France--East Half • Charles Bertram Black
... money; but a few hours after he left the shop Mrs. Anthony's maid found him on the wharf, and gave him a letter from her mistress. In this was inclosed a sum of money sufficient to last him for some time, and an assurance that she did not share her ...
— The Bravest of the Brave - or, with Peterborough in Spain • G. A. Henty
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